Job summary
- Main area
- Acute and Urgent Care Directorate
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 232-AUC-6187199-A
- Employer
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Harplands Hospital
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Salary
- £22,383 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Ward Housekeeper
NHS AfC: Band 2
Job overview
Ward Housekeeper, Ward 4, Harplands Hospital:
Do you want to be part of an innovative and collaborative Team? We are looking for applicants for a Ward Housekeeper post. This is a great opportunity to develop your skills and drive some exciting developments within a complex and fast-paced environment. You will be supported by the Team to ensure we continue to maintain high quality, patient focused services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as an integral part of the ward team. S/he will be responsible for monitoring of all non-clinical patient facilities service in the ward area and ensuring a clean, safe and comfortable environment to improve the patient’s experience.
The main elements of this role are conducting daily checks of the ward environment to monitor quality standards, to report deficiencies and take appropriate action. Ensure the delivery of cleaning, catering and minor maintenance services together with other specified tasks to meet individual patient’s needs.
Working for our organisation
AWARDED TRUST OF THE YEAR 2022-2023
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our team prides themselves on compassion, teamwork and resilience.
The Team will offer a full induction package.
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it. To excel you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate person who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the Care Quality Commission that it is the fastest improving Mental Health Trust in the Country.
In return we offer;
A competitive progressive salary
We cover the cost of your DBS Check (£44)
Competitive staff benefits such as weekly offers and discounts
Individual Personal Development Plan and Career Progression
Excellent pension scheme available
27- 33 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays (pro rata)
Free parking
Excellent access to staff Wellbeing initiatives, including a workplace choir, (Combined Voices), a running club (Combined run Club) and much much more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Cleaning: To check there is a high standard of cleanliness in all areas and assisting in maintaining and monitoring cleaning standards on the ward e.g. tidying of bed areas, conduct regular cleanliness audits and provide reports to the Ward Manager, assist in Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE) inspections.
Catering: To check that patients are provided with good quality food and drink to meet their individual needs and to report any deficiencies to the facilities manager.
To support menu completion for all dietary categories and facilitate any bespoke menus if required with the catering team.
Provide a suitable environment for a pleasant mealtime.
Undertake the ordering and collecting of additional food / snacks and ensuring that patients are provided with appropriate cutlery, crockery, protective clothing.
To support the implementation of and promote the culture of protected meal times for all patients.
Maintaining the environment:
To check that the environment is well maintained, safe, welcoming, comfortable, reassuring and to report any deficiencies to the nurse in charge.
Check general tidiness in all areas of the ward, report and follow up environmental maintenance issues.
Equipment: To support the Ward Manager by conducting regular checks to ensure that all equipment is in good working order and to report any faults.
Order specialist equipment as requested by the Ward Manager and support the completion and review of the non-medical equipment inventory.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience within a care setting or awareness of mental health issues.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Becky Jones
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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